Bradbury editions
I've wondered for years why new printings of the same old mass-market-paperback editions of Bradbury are still on the store...
Archive for Speculative Fiction
England Swings SF, Judith Merril, and the New Wave
I'm finally reading Judith Merril's groundbreaking 1968 anthology England Swings SF. Here are some thoughts. i probably ought to...
A history of online sf prozines, 1985-2010
In October of 2010, I decided to write a history on online sf magazines, with a focus on prozines. I...
Gender balance in some old anthologies
Interim report on my father's sf anthologies: 25 sf anthologies recorded in my spreadsheet so far, published from 1953 through...
Reading update
Yesterday, I finished the anthology I'd been reading and skimming for the past few days: Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction...
Truth-tellers in sf
I encounter this idea regularly in stories, both submissions and published: A character is bound (by a vow, by brain...
Control over communications in Vinge’s Zones of Thought books
(Quasi-spoilers here for all three Zones books, in that if you've got this idea in your head as you read,...
As a famous ancient human once wrote
Back in 2003, I noted that when future-setting sf characters refer to “an ancient Terran word,” they nearly always mean...
Heavenly Breakfast
Latest randomly chosen book from my unread shelves: Delany's 1979 memoir Heavenly Breakfast. Which, as I opened it, gave me...
Bettyann
So I've been halfheartedly reading/skimming all this old science fiction, and I started in on Raymond J. Healy's 1951 anthology...
“How Can We Sink When We Can Fly?”
I'm reading Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction of the Year from 1972, and most of the stories in it, although...
Gender stats: my father’s anthologies
So far, I've read or skimmed or at least glanced at 16 of the anthologies that my father owned. Here...